Everyday Chinese Medicine - Tips and Remedies

Sadness and grief are emotions that have their legitimate place in life. Change in life circumstances, feelings of loss, so many...

So small and yet so painful – those little (sometimes not so little) breaks in the mucous skin of the gum or even directly on the tongue...

Acupuncture and herbal approach to rhinitis

With the start of the cold season, some lucky people are happy to stay in T-shirts, they keep radiating heat and no single digit...

Menopause as part of Yin Deficiency

Women’s Health starts with the onset of the period (be it long, short, painful, or absent) moving on to fertility issues, pregnancy and...

We now live in a time where it is becoming easier to acknowledge our emotions and are given more leeway to analyse them and talk about...

In theory, pain is good. It alerts you to the fact that you are suffering from a certain degree of tissue damage and that you need to...

There is a myriad of differing respiratory issues around, starting from the common cold, flu, and, unfortunately recently Covid, to...

In Chinese medicine (CM), the skin tells us the story of our emotions, but also of the state of our digestive system and our general...

According to the ancient Chinese doctors, good health is based on what enters your body, what leaves your body – and a good rest at...

Mainly, our body needs the ability to sweat in order to regulate our body’s temperature, which therefore plays an important role for our...

Where there is no movement, there is pain. Where there is movement, there is no pain. This Chinese proverb very clearly suggests that all...

Hiccups treatment in Chinese medicine

Halitosis is generally known under its much more mundane description: bad breath. It falls under the category of symptoms that nobody...

The word ‘dizziness’ contains a vast range of sensations. There is the mild light-headedness that lasts only for a few seconds. It can be...

Everybody knows at least one ‘absentminded professor’, a friend or relative who is so absorbed in his or her own world that everything...

Fibromyalgia can affect your bones and muscles causing anything between tenderness and severe pain. It usually appears bilaterally (on...

We have started feeling it during the last couple of weeks here in Perth, how the days are starting to become shorter again. And this...

Depression encompasses such a broad emotional range that varies from feeling a bit ‘low’ from time to time, to such a dominant...